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images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
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Aesop's Fables (Hardcover)
Agnes Miller Parker; Translated by V.S. Vernon Jones And Others
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For 25 centuries, the animal stories which go by the name of
Aesop’s Fables have amused and instructed generations of children
and adults alike. They are still as fresh and poignant today as
they were to the ancient Greeks who composed them. This beautifully
illustrated edition contains some of the best-loved fables,
including the Boy who cried Wolf, the Lion and the Mouse, the Goose
that Laid the Golden Egg, the Hare and the Tortoise, and The Town
Mouse and the Country Mouse alongside many of the lesser-known
tales. These timeless stories are illustrated with 35 wood
engravings by Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980), one of the
greatest British wood engraving artists of the twentieth century.
Parker was influenced by the art of Wyndham Lewis and the Cubist
and Vorticist movements which flourished in the period between the
wars. Her distinctive work is strikingly stylised and deceptively
simple. Commissioned in the 1930s by the fine press publisher,
Gregynog Press, for their edition of the work, these exquisite wood
engravings inspired by the fables are among Parker's finest.
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The influence of the past, and of the future on current-time
tradeoffs in the forest arena are particularly relevant given the
long-term successions in forest landscapes and the hundred years'
rotations in forestry. Historically established path dependencies
and conflicts determine our present situation and delimit what is
possible to achieve. Similarly, future trends and desires have a
large influence on decision making. Nevertheless, decisions about
forest governance and management are always made in the present -
in the present-time appraisal of the developed situation, future
alternatives and in negotiation between different perspectives,
interests, and actors. This book explores historic and future
outlooks as well as current tradeoffs and methods in forest
governance and management. It emphasizes the generality and
complexity with empirical data from Sweden and internationally. It
first investigates, from a historical perspective, how previous
forest policies and discourses have influenced current forest
governance and management. Second, it considers methods to explore
alternative forest futures and how the results from such
investigations may influence the present. Third, it examines
current methods of balancing tradeoffs in decision-making among
ecosystem services. Based on the findings the authors develop an
integrated approach - Reflexive Forestry - to support exchange of
knowledge and understandings to enable capacity building and the
establishment of common ground. Such societal agreements, or what
the authors elaborate as forest social contracts, are sets of
relational commitment between involved actors that may generate
mutual action and a common directionality to meet contemporary
challenges.
Voting difficulties hung over America's presidential election in
2000 like a dark cloud. Hanging chads, a butterfly ballot, and the
Supreme Court remain the most vivid memories of that political
donnybrook. Passage of 2002's Help America Vote Act sparked further
interest in the physical process of casting a ballot, yet several
recent contests still produced confusion at the polls. A solution
to at least some of those problems may be found in new technology,
but such innovations carry their own concerns and questions. Voting
Technology is the first book to investigate in a scientific and
authoritative manner how voters respond to the new equipment. The
authors -an interdisciplinary group of experts in American
elections, political behavior, human-computer interaction, and
human factors psychology -assess five commercially available voting
systems, each one representing a specific class based on shared
design principles, as well as a prototype system not currently
available. They evaluate the systems against different criteria
(including ease of use, speed, and accuracy) using field
experiments, laboratory experiments, and expert reviews. The
results reveal the good and bad about the new systems, including
specific features that contribute to clarity, confusion, or error.
Going beyond the concern with spoiled ballots, they determine
whether voters actually cast their ballots for the candidates they
intended to support. They address fundamental questions of whether
voters like and trust the equipment and whether the various systems
are equally usable by all voters. Their research also opens up an
entirely new line of inquiry by asking about the interaction
between ballot format and voter behavior. The concluding chapter
pulls together best practices that will guide manufacturers of
voting systems, ballot designers, election officials, political
observers, and of course, voters. In a political system based on
free exercise of personal choice, the least we can do is make sure
our choices are being accurately recorded and counted.
This volume summarises the academic work accomplished at the 6th
International Security Forum (ISF), convened by the Geneva Centre
for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces from 4 to 6 October 2004
at the Montreux Convention Centre, Switzerland. It presents a
thematic overview of 150 presentations given at the 6th ISF, either
as full-length keynote speeches in the two plenary sessions or in
the form of summaries of all speeches given in the six topic
sessions and the 24 workshops. The topics discussed respond to the
complex new challenges of the post Cold War world with an
integrated, multilateral and interdisciplinary approach. The
experts contributing to the success of the ISF covered, among other
issues, the need for UN Reform, EU and NATO enlargement, Human
Security and International Humanitarian Law, the global War on
Terror, the role of Private Military Companies, Combating Violence
against Women and Children and Security Sector Governance.
This book critiques and extends the analysis of power in the
classic, Who Rules America?, on the fiftieth anniversary of its
original publication in 1967-and through its subsequent editions.
The chapters, written especially for this book by twelve
sociologists and political scientists, provide fresh insights and
new findings on many contemporary topics, among them the concerted
attempt to privatize public schools; foreign policy and the growing
role of the military-industrial component of the power elite; the
successes and failures of union challenges to the power elite; the
ongoing and increasingly global battles of a major sector of
agribusiness; and the surprising details of how those who hold to
the egalitarian values of social democracy were able to tip the
scales in a bitter conflict within the power elite itself on a
crucial banking reform in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
These social scientists thereby point the way forward in the study
of power, not just in the United States, but globally. A brief
introductory chapter situates Who Rules America? within the context
of the most visible theories of power over the past fifty
years-pluralism, Marxism, Millsian elite theory, and historical
institutionalism. Then, a chapter by G. William Domhoff, the author
of Who Rules America?, takes us behind the scenes on how the
original version was researched and written, tracing the evolution
of the book in terms of new concepts and research discoveries by
Domhoff himself, as well as many other power structure researchers,
through the 2014 seventh edition. Readers will find differences of
opinion and analysis from chapter to chapter. The authors were
encouraged to express their views independently and frankly. They
do so in an admirable and useful fashion that will stimulate
everyone's thinking on these difficult and complex issues, setting
the agenda for future studies of power.
Svend Saxov* and J.K. Nieuwenhuis** *Laboratory of Geophysics,
Aarhus University Finlandsgade 6, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
**Ministry of Transport and Public Works Rijkswaterstaat,
Deltadienst Van Alkemadelaan 400, 2597 AT the Hague The Netherlands
The NATO Science Committee Special Programme Panel on Marine
Sciences decided in September 1979 that a work- ing group should
prepare a document dealing with the prob- lems of marine slides.
The working group submitted to the Panel a proposal for the
arrangement of an interdisciplinary workshop on Marine Slides and
other Mass Movements, and the Panel decided to fund such a
workshop. Mass movement of soils and rocks on subaerial slopes is a
subject which has been intensely studied over the past fifty years,
and its literature is becoming extens- ive. The submarine
phenomenon, although similar in its pbysical basis, is much less
studied, but has become an important subject (particularly during
the past decade) because of the increase of man's use of the
coastal en- vironment and the intensified exploration for oil and
minerals on the continental margins and ocean basins.
The influence of the past, and of the future on current-time
tradeoffs in the forest arena are particularly relevant given the
long-term successions in forest landscapes and the hundred years'
rotations in forestry. Historically established path dependencies
and conflicts determine our present situation and delimit what is
possible to achieve. Similarly, future trends and desires have a
large influence on decision making. Nevertheless, decisions about
forest governance and management are always made in the present -
in the present-time appraisal of the developed situation, future
alternatives and in negotiation between different perspectives,
interests, and actors. This book explores historic and future
outlooks as well as current tradeoffs and methods in forest
governance and management. It emphasizes the generality and
complexity with empirical data from Sweden and internationally. It
first investigates, from a historical perspective, how previous
forest policies and discourses have influenced current forest
governance and management. Second, it considers methods to explore
alternative forest futures and how the results from such
investigations may influence the present. Third, it examines
current methods of balancing tradeoffs in decision-making among
ecosystem services. Based on the findings the authors develop an
integrated approach - Reflexive Forestry - to support exchange of
knowledge and understandings to enable capacity building and the
establishment of common ground. Such societal agreements, or what
the authors elaborate as forest social contracts, are sets of
relational commitment between involved actors that may generate
mutual action and a common directionality to meet contemporary
challenges.
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